Juan A TarancónJuan A. Tarancón is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has written on the western, on the theory of film genre, and on filmmakers such as John Sayles and Carlos Saura. His work has appeared in CinAction, Cultural Studies, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, and in varied Spanish books and scholarly journals. He is currently researching contemporary westerns, representations of Mexican American culture in film, and the rise of film noir in Spain. Read More Read Less